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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §4.6.45.pr

Classification of Soldiers Unable to Leave Duty as Publicly Absent

Passage 808 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section defines that all soldiers who cannot leave their military service without danger are legally deemed to be absent on public service.

[SCAEUOLA libro primo regularum. ] §4.6.45.prMilites omnes, qui discedere signis sine periculo non possunt, rei publicae causa abesse intelleguntur.
[SCAEVOLA, Rules, Book I] All soldiers who cannot depart from their standards without danger are understood to be absent on public service.

Notes

  1. §4.6.45.prdiscedere signis — Literally 'to depart from the standards (signa).' Since the standards represented the military units of the Roman army, this phrase idiomatically means 'to leave active duty' or 'to depart from service.' The ablative 'signis' is an ablative of separation.
  2. §4.6.45.prrei publicae causa abesse intelleguntur — A construction of the 'nominative with infinitive' (NCI) where the passive verb 'intelleguntur' takes the infinitive 'abesse'. The subject is 'Milites omnes', indicating 'all soldiers are understood to...'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §4.6.45.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.6.45.pr

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